Improvement in photograph-mounts



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Improvement in Photograph--M-.Ountsf No. i27,705, Patented June 11, 1872..

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. Boston, in the county of Suii'olk and State of scale, showing the hinge or iiexible joint.

UNITED STATES ASA O. PARTRIDGE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PHOTOGRAPH-MOUNTS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,705, dated June 11, 1872 antedated June 1, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Asn C. PAETRIDGE, of

Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Photograph-Mount, to be used with a clamp or spring-back portfolio; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a spring back portfolio lying open and having a number of my improved mounts inserted. Fig. 2 is a view of a single mount detached from the portfolio.- Fig. 3 is a top view, on a larger The same letter indicates the same part in all the gures.

The nature of my invention consists in making a photograph-mount with a hinge or flexible joint connecting the body of the mount with a counterfoil or stub, such stub beinginf tended for insertion in the clamp or springback of a portfolio. The object of the invention is to facilitate the insertion of photographic pictures in a prepa-red cover or portfolio and their removal therefrom at will, aifordin g the ready means of protecting them from injury and of enlarging or diminishing the number held in a single cover, or changing the arrangement of the pictures at pleasure.

In the drawing, A A indicate the sides of the portfolio; B, the spring backor clamp; O, the body of the photograph-mount; D, the stub r counterfoil; and h, the hinge or flexible joint which vconnects the stub with the body of the mount. This hinge may be made of cloth or any suitable flexible material.

To attach the mount it is only necessary to open the spring back or clamp .and insert the stub. The spring, being released, at once clamps and holds it firmly in place. A s many pictures can thus be inserted as the back will hold, and they or any of them can beremoved and replaced at plea-sure.

l Having thus fully described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A photograph-mount having a stub or counterfoil attached to it by a ilexible joint or hinge, in the manner and for the purpose described.

The above specification of my said invention signed and witnessed at Boston this 3d day of November, A. D. 1871.

f ASA O. PARTRIDGE.

Witnesses:

G. B. WINDsHIP, C. A. STEVENS. 

